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We Need The Stars... We Need Purpose! We Need The Image The Destiny To Take Root Among The Stars Gives Us Of Ourselves As A Purposeful, Growing Species. We Need To Become The Adult Species That The Destiny Can Help Us Become! If We're To Be Anything Other Than Smooth Dinosaurs Who Evolve, Specialize And Die, We Need The Stars.... When We Have No Difficult, Long-term Purpose To Strive Toward, We Fight Each Other. We Destroy Ourselves. We Have These Chaotic, Apocalyptic Periods Of Murderous Craziness.

I Think Climbing Mountains Or Buildings Or Whatever Has Been A Really Good Metaphor For Finishing My Work. Because No Matter How Tired You Get, No Matter How You Feel Like You Can't Possibly Do This, Somehow You Do.

Science Fiction Let Me Do Both. It Let Me Look Into Science And Stick My Nose In Everywhere.

Well, Writing Was What I Wanted To Do, It Was Always What I Wanted To Do. I Had Novels To Write So I Wrote Them.

Choose Your Leaders With Wisdom And Forethought. To Be Led By A Coward Is To Be Controlled By All That The Coward Fears. To Be Led By A Fool Is To Be Led By The Opportunists Who Control The Fool. To Be Led By A Thief Is To Offer Up Your Most Precious Treasures To Be Stolen. To Be Led By A Liar Is To Ask To Be Told Lies. To Be Led By A Tyrant Is To Sell Yourself And Those You Love Into Slavery.